Sociologists

Most of the information contained below came from these three web sites: Dead Sociologists Index -
This is a list of the various theorists along with some biographical information and a
short summary of their work.Great Thinkers and Visionaries
- This site discusses the live and works of many great thinkers.Timeline of Sociology from 1600
- This site offers a chronological list of sociologists.None of these sites, nor does this list, contain a complete listing of
sociologists and their important contributions to Sociology.

ATTENTION:
The information in this section is subject to rapid change. Therefore, these
links may not be valid from one visit to the next. Every attempt is made to keep
them current.

Howie's Home Page
- A living sociologist who created this page primarily to make things he has written and
published in obscure places available to anyone who wants them.

Theory:
The Necessary Evil - Becker explains why some qualitative researchers in
education have begun to question the epistemological premises of their work. 'Attacks on
qualitative research used to come exclusively from the methodological right, from the
proponents of positivism and statistical and experimental rigor. But now the attack comes
from the cultural studies left as well, from the proponents of the "new
ethnography," who argue that there is no such thing as "objective
knowledge" and that qualitative research is no more than an insidious disguise for
the old enemy of positivism and pseudo-objectivity.'

The Durkheim Pages -
Devoted to the presentation of information concerning Emile Durkheim. It contents some
full texts, a complete bibliography of Durkheim's work, and a timeline describing
important events related to Durkheim and the Third French Republic.

What is a
social fact? - From: Emile Durkheim [1982] The Rules of the Sociological Method (Ed.
by Steven Lukes; trans. by W.D. Halls). New York: Free Press, pp. 50-9.

On the
Division of Labor - From: Emile Durkheim [1947] The Division of Labor in Society
(Translated by George Simpson). New York: The Free Press.

The Elementary
forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press. 'Introduction'; book 1, ch. 1
('Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion'); book 2, ch. 7 ('Origins of the Idea
of the Totemic Principle of Mana's'); 'Conclusion'.

Norbert
Elias and Process Sociology - Identifies and provides internet resources for all
social scientists working with the ideas of Norbert Elias and process sociology. They have
a special discussion group "Elias-I listserv". You can contact them directly by
e-mail at: Robert van Krieken

Marx/Engels Archive - Colorado.
Contains a library (a chronology of the works of Marx and Engels), a biographical archive,
a photo gallery, other Marxist writers (like Lenin, Riazanov, Trotsky, and Pannekoek) and
a search engine that searches the entire Marx/Engels Internet Library.

The Karl Marx Page is
hosted and maintained by Cardiff University and offers works about Marx and works by Marx.
An important aspect of this site is that it offers a lot of background on Marx.

Mead, George Herbert [1863-1931]

George's Page - A
document repository for the publications of Mead. The page also provides access to related
publications by other writers, including sources documents referenced by Mead, some
biographical and historical notes, and commentaries on Mead's work. This site is a part of
the Mead Project at the Department of Sociology, Brock University, in St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada.

The F. W. Taylor
Project - The F. W. Taylor Project is preserving and disseminating the F. W. Taylor
Collection at the Stevens Institute of Technology by establishing the on-line Taylor
archive to digitally store and represent the contents of the collection.

World
System Theory - From Immanuel Wallerstein [1976] The Modern World-System: Capitalist
Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New
York: Academic Press, pp. 229-33.

Kuchenbrod, Matthias: Unternehmerethos
und Asketischer Protestantismus. Max Weber (1864-1920) - A reconstruction of the
argumentation and the theoretical background of the so called "Weber-Thesis",
that certain parts of the Protestant theology, especially John Calvin's (1509-1564)
doctrines of vocation and predestination were the most important roots of the modern
manner of entrepreneurship.